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49 Clev. St. L. Rev. 105 (2001)
Are Contemporary Community Standards No Longer Contemporary

handle is hein.journals/clevslr49 and id is 115 raw text is: ARE CONTEMPORARY COMMUNITY STANDARDS NO LONGER CONTEMPORARY? I. INTRODUCTION ................................................................... 105 II. OBSCENITY LAW AND ITS HISTORICAL BACKGROUND ....... 107 III. MODERN TEST FOR OBSCENITY .......................................... 109 A. Community: What is it? ............................................. 112 IV. INTERNET AND FREE SPEECH .............................................. 117 A. Bulletin Boards Should be Distinguished from the World Wide Web .................................................. 118 B. Speech Regulation on the Internet ............................. 119 1. Federal Attempts to Regulate the Internet .......... 119 2. Challenge to COPA ............................................ 122 3. State Internet Law s ............................................. 123 V. SHOULD THERE BE A NEW STANDARD OR NO STANDARD AT ALL?...........................................124 A. Community Standards Versus Other Standards ........ 125 1. N ational Standard ............................................... 125 2. Virtual Community Standards ............................ 125 3. Is Obscenity Even a Problem? ............................ 128 4. Children and Sexually Explicit Content of the W eb ............................................................... 129 5. Self-regulation of Internet Content is a Constitutional Way to Achieve Legitimate Governmental Purposes ...................................... 129 V I. C ONCLUSION ...................................................................... 132 I. INTRODUCTION To preserve the freedom of the human mind and freedom of the press, every spirit should be ready to devote itself to martyrdom; for as long as we may think as we will, and speak as we think, the condition of man will proceed in improvement.' On June 22, 2000, the Third Circuit upheld the preliminary injunction2 ruling that the Child Online Protection Act (C.O.P.A.), 42 U.S.C. § 231, designed to protect iLetter from Thomas Jefferson to William Green Mumford (June 18, 1799), The Letters of Thomas Jefferson: 1793-1826, at http://educ.let.zng.nV-usa/P/tj3/writingsbzf/jefl 127.htm (last visited Sept. 16, 2000). 2ACLU v. Reno, 217 F.3d 162 (3d Cir. 2000).

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